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Bomb children: life in the former battlefields of Laos

By Leah , Zani

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781478005261, 9781478004226, 9781478004851, 1478005262, 1478004223, 1478004851
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7832351 bytes)
Pages
viii, 171 pages: illustrations\185
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:08
War;History;Anthropology

Description

Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of peoples' everyday lives. InBomb ChildrenLeah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air warfare. Zani traces the sociocultural impact of cluster submunitions—known in Laos as “bomb children”—through stories of explosives clearance technicians and others living and working in these old air strike zones. Zani presents her ethnography alongside poetry written in the field, crafting a startlingly beautiful analysis of state terror, authoritarian revival, rapid development, and ecological contamination. In so doing, she proposes that postwar zones are their own cultural and area studies, offering new ways to understand the parallel relationship between ongoing war violence and postwar revival.

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